Design of Distributed Pharmaceutical Retail Management System Based on Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm

To meet the demand of digitizing progress of pharmaceutical retail industry, there are various kinds of software are made for pharmaceutical retail enterprise. However, much commercial software on the market fails to meet the demand of data transmission safety. Therefore, a novel system was designed for medium size pharmaceutical retail enterprise with multiple branches. It is designed to digitize the process of retail operations including management of stock, order client, staff, product, branch and warehouse. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm was used to secure the data transmission on the Internet.